I bought a 4G Sandisk pendrive, but when I plug it on my laptop or any other PC, it show me in Hard disk section. I learnt that Sandisk have manufactured this pendrive as fixed disk to have compatibility with Windows 8 certification.

But I want to convert this pendrive into a protocol licence (from Triangle Microworks), and for that I need to have this pendrive in flash mode (removable disk drive), as TMW - test harness is unable to read USB drive on fixed mode.

SanDisk has recently reversed their decision on configuring drives as fixed disk and are back to removable. Per support "all sandisk drives are being moved back to the removable disk configuration".

Unfortunately SanDisk does not provide a utility to change this on your own. There may be some out there you can search for but they are model specific and can take a while to hunt down. For this size drive I'd save yourself hours of searching and just replace it.

Hello, I managed to convert my Sandisk Extreme, and I believe that this program will go do it with any USB stick,just run the USB_Part_Flip in administrator mode and mark the permission box, select the drive of your flash drive and click GO.To return as non removable simply leave the box unchecked and click GO.